Category Archives: Oil and gas

When I was a child, we had a house full of pets. Loads of them. Dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, fish, birds, I even had to look after a goat. Pretty much half the house seemed to be under the weight of animals, and I wanted to be a zoo keeper. It just seemed the natural way to live.

So ‘Brexit’ happened. The UK has spoken and voted to leave the EU. With 17.4m votes, 51.9% were in favour of leaving compared to 48.1% who wanted to remain. Regardless of how you voted (or not), it’s a huge decision and one that is dominating the news, social feeds and conversation on the street. Once…

The EU referendum has been trending for a while now. Look on any Facebook feed and it will be inundated with so much propaganda and scaremongering from either side that has become a topic of dread for most people. According to the Brexit Survival Guide, we must face the possibility of freezing our cheese…

Last month, our managing director, Dr Peter Black, and Sales and Marketing Manager, Kirsty Armitage, made their usual trip to Houston, Texas, to attend the Petroleum Network Education Conference (PNEC). In my last blog post I discussed why attending events in person is as important as ever, but it’s equally important to choose…

With May fast approaching, the team at EnergySys are getting excited about PNEC. If you haven’t already registered, you can sign up here. In the days before Linkedin, attending events and social networking was hugely vital to the success of a company. But with everything going digital, is it as beneficial to attend events as it once…

Automation is a tricky topic to cover. While we can provide evidence of the benefits, like the fact that our system allowed one of our clients to reduce a week’s work to two hours, there isn’t really an easy way to demonstrate how it works. Since our automation process is designed to make dramatic reductions…

In my last blog post I mentioned performance improvement. It’s a buzzword that frequently appears when researching software systems for the oil and gas industry, but what exactly does it mean? To me, Performance Improvement is a blanket term for a range of important issues, ranging from operational efficiency, to automation, and data integration. However, the…

It’s a known fact that humans don’t like change. Why? According to several studies, there are a number of reasons for this, with loss of control and excess uncertainty being the most common reasons. If change feels like walking into an abyss, then people will reject it. People will often choose to remain deep rooted in…

I recently attended a conference, hosted by KPMG in London, concerning the current state of play with low oil price and its effects on the world’s oil and gas investment markets. It was an interesting meeting with about 150 people in the audience, and a panel of four speakers. In the following post I summarise the presentations, how its not all doom and gloom and some tips for surviving the current situation.

As many of you know, we have recently refreshed large parts of our production service infrastructure. Parts of the existing hardware, while still running well, had reached three years of age, which represents the point where we deem the ROI on renewal to be about right. In a cloud based service the ROI is made immediately more attractive because the cost is shared between all the consumers of the service.

Also, there have also been a lot of advances in three years for hardware.